Movies like Il Complottista (2025)

Madea Goes to Jail - The Play (2006)

Madea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Like Crazy (2016)

Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

Chloe and Theo (2015)

A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

¿Y cómo es él? (2022)

Thomas is a meek man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Despite his situation he decides to fake a work trip to go to Vallarta to confront Jero, a taxi driver who is sleeping with his wife.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Joneses (2010)

A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Don't Think Twice (2016)

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

God Forgives Everyone (2026)

Arturo is a lonely, gluttonous, and disillusioned Sicilian real estate agent. His mundane life finally finds its spark through his one true passion: Sicilian pastries. It’s over a tray of cannoli that he meets his soulmate, Flora. She is everything he ever dreamed of—beautiful, witty, and brilliant. To top it off, she’s a pastry chef. However, a divine obstacle stands between them: God. While Flora is a devout, fervent Catholic, Arturo abandoned his faith as a child. Desperate not to lose the woman of his dreams, he decides to "fake it 'til he makes it," pretending to be a man of deep conviction. Guiding Arturo on this chaotic journey toward truth, faith, and Flora’s heart is an unlikely mentor and friend: Pope Francis himself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

In the Name of the Italian People (1971)

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life. "Illibatezza" (Rossellini): The hostess Anna Maria, to dissuade an aggressive suitor who prefers maternal tendencies, assumes an unscrupulous attitude, obeying the suggestions of her distant boyfriend. "The New World" (Godard): The deflagration of an atomic bomb causes strange effects on the inhabitants of a city. "La ricotta" (Pasolini): During the filming of a film about a religious subject, the extra Stracci dies hanging on the cross due to an indigestion of ricotta. "Il pollo spante" (Gregoretti): While an expert illustrates to a board of merchants the most modern techniques to increase sales through the discovery of the secret self of the average consumer, the human story of a bourgeois who, following these suggestions, focuses on the purchase of a plot of land in the countryside.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

A Flat for Three (2012)

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

SubUrbia (1997)

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Reality (2012)

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

Family Weekend (2013)

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Savage House (2026)

Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Monsters (1963)

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly (2000)

Dave Chappelle returns for a stand-up to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones (2019)

Dave Chappelle takes on gun culture, the opioid crisis and the tidal wave of celebrity scandals in this defiant stand-up special.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Il Tempo é ancora Nostro (2026)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Between Notes (2024)

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Tethered (2020)

A conspiracy theorist's life is upended when a random man is pulled across the multiverse and tied to him with string. He is told that if the string is cut, the world will end.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Horse Girl (2020)

A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Edge of Darkness (2010)

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Bug (2007)

In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Scianèl (2024)

Scianel is a young girl from the ZEN (a public housing project neighborhood) in the city of Palermo an area on the outskirts of Palermo, who is not able to give a name or a form to her diversity. She knows she's "weird" but hasn't understood to what extent yet. When, during a workshop, she discovers her talent for painting, her world changes: what she draws comes to life, it develops a soul. Even if for her this gift becomes a surprise and then a comfort, for her grandfather, instead, it becomes a possibility to make money. Gathering the most bizarre demands from the people of the neighborhood he makes his granddaughter draw what these people think they desire, not realising what they really need.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Slacker (1990)

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

The American Side (2016)

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama